Macaroni and spaghetti machine.



V. G. SANGIORGIO.

MACARONTAND SPAGHETTI MACHINE.

APPLICATI'ON FILED Aue.2. 1911.

Patented May 21,1918.

. A EEE @gna VTIO GIORGIO SANGIORGIO, OF MERIIDEN, CUNNEGTEG'UT.

MACARONI ANB SPAGHETTI MACHINE.

Specication of Letters Patent. Paytfgmtgpdt Mpeg @L 11911@ Applicationled August 2, tm?. Serial No. ltt.

To all lwhom it may concern:

'Be it known that lf, Vrro GIORGIO SAN-V machine and the object of theinvention is to provide a machine of this character which may beemployed for family use, so that macaroni, spaghetti, etc., may be madefresh when desired, thereby obviating the necessity of employing the dryproduct which, admittedly is much inferior in taste tothe product whenfresh.

v`lll/'ith the foregoin object inmind, the present invention em odies aremarkably simple form of mechanism which is preferably operated by handand will form macaroni or spaghetti in the shapes in which they aregenerallyl placed on the market, but

.which may be readily operated inthe kitchen of a household to form theproducts from material mixed just rior to its introduction into themachine. 'll rough the employment ot this invention, the spaghetti ormacaroni may be formed and baked, or otherwise prepared, immediatelyfollowing the mixing of its constituents.

Machines have heretofore been suggested for making macaroni in the home,but these machines have generally been complicated and have been open tothe objection that the macaroni could only be made arcuate incross-section or solid,` and not cylindrical, as is preferred. Accordingto the present invention, cylindrical macaroni results 'from theoperation of the machine, and this in practice is found to produce themost palatable dishes.

Features of the invention,l other than those speciied,'as well as theadvantages thereof, will be apparent from the hereinafter detaileddescription taken in conjunction .with the accompanying drawing.,

lin the accompanying drawing ll have illustrated one practicalembodiment of the invention, but the construction therein shown is to beunderstood as illustrative, only, and

not as defining the limits of the invention.

Figure l is a side elevation of'a machine embodying the presentinvention, a part of the casing of the machine being broken away, andthe macaroni forming parts being shown in section on the line 1-1 ofFig. 2, in the Interest of clearness.

Fig. 2 'is a front elevation of the machine. Flg. 3 1s a section on line3 3 of Fig. 2.

Fig. 4; is an inside view of the face or` forming platecf the machine,and

Fig. 5 is a face view of afiller member employed in conjunctiontherewith.

Referring to the drawings, A indicates the casing of the machine, whichis provided wlth a depending stem B, the lower end of Whlch shaped toform a clam whereby the casing may be 'mounted rigi ly upon a tirrnvsupport. Casing A is provided with a horlaontal, cylindrical portion C,to the rear portion of which material may be fed through a hopper D. vAhelical conveyer screw E is operable within cylindrical portion C and 1sprovided with a stem e to which is secured an actuating crank e.

' It will be noted that the construction as thus far described isthesame, in edect, as the well known domestic food chopper of a formextremely compact, durable, and highly efficient. The present invention,however, differs from the ordinary food chopper in that, instead offeeding the material by con`- veyer screw E between knives at theforward end of cylindrical ortion C, said screw serves to force dougembodyin macaroni or spaghetti constituents, forwar l through meansassociated with the front en of cylindrical portion C, whereby saiddough takes on a tubular form and is adapted to be cut od into thedesired lengths by means next to be described.

The forward end of cylindrical portion C' lugs c in the casing for thepurpose of maintaining the face-plate seated within the ta'- pered endof the cylindrical portion. The face-plate is provided with an annularseries of apertures g, and on the inner side of said plate the aperturesare countersunh as at g', as shown best in Figs. 3 and t.

lugs f, through the apertures of nos l'. designates the filler member,which is substantially star-shape, on the arms of which star, which areequal in number to the number of apertures g, are mounted pins t", 5

positioned 1n corresponding relation on tte mel-uber I as the aperturesg formed in plate I F. Member I is adapted t0 be seated within therecess or depression f2 in the inner face of plate F and partakes of theposition shown in Fig. 3, wherein the back face of member I issubstantially flush with the corresponding face of face-plate F, withone of the pins extending through each aperture g. As shown in Fig. 3,the pins i are of less diameter than arc the apertures g, and the'spaceleft between the parts is equal to the thickness of the wall of themacaroni to be formed. y

It will be seen from Fig. 3 that, if the plastic material is forcedagainst the back of plate F, it will squeeze forwardly through aperturesg and around pins i, the countersunk portions g allowing of suiicientelearance between the arms of filler member I and the walls vof thecountersinks to leave ample space for the passage lof said materialthrough the apertures g in such manner that 'it will completely surroundpins z'. Thus,

if dough embodying the constituents of macaroni is introduced into thecasing through hopper D, it will be fed forwardly by conveyer screw Eand forced through the face-plate and around pins 2'., which operationwill result in the constant feed of tubular macaroni from the severalopenings g, as long as the crank e is operated and the material fed tothe machine.

It is desirable that means be provided for cutting the macaroni thusformed into desired lengths, and, in the form of the invention shown,this means-is associated with the stem y' of conveyer screw E. This stemprojects through accentral aperture in faceplate I, as shown in Fig. 1,and is provided at its outer end with a threaded portion adapted toreceive a win nut J by which the conveyer screw is prec uded fromworking outof the back of the machine. v.Inter mediate screw J and thefront of plate by means of ya handle k, about stem y' of screw E. Byrotating the knife as described, the 'tubular macaroni extending throughand beyond the apertures g may be" cut oli flush with the front face ofplate Ff Knife K normally gravitates into the idle position shown inFigs. 1 and 2, but may form.

be manually operated to cut otf the macaroni as the desired lengthsthereof are successively formed.

It willbe understood that the macaroni or spaghetti thus formed isdeposited in a suitable receptacle and thereafter referably placed in gaheated oven to be ried sutilciently forjts proper use.

A marked advantage of the present invention over prior art devicesresides in the fact that, because of the cooperating faecplate andfiller member, tubular macaroni may be produced, this being due to thefact that the filler member eoperatcs with the face-plate in such mannerthat the outlines of the apertures in the face-plate are enti relyunobstructed circumferentially. Thus, the circumference of each apertureimparts a cylindrical configuration to the macaroni, while the pins z'render said macaroni hollow. The macaroni thus formed is, accordingly,tubular, and the walls thereof are of substantially equal thicknessthroughout, so that the macaroni will cook evenly and will result in amost palatable product.

Having thus fully described the invention, what I claim as new, anddesire to secure by Letters Patent, is:

In a machine of the character described, the combination of acylindrical barrel, means for forcing dough longitudinally therethrough,a face-plate at the forward end of the barrel provided on its inner facewith a recess and having a plurality of counter-sunk apertures extendingthrough the face-plate, a filler member, a portion of which is shaped toseat in the recess in the inner face of said plate with the inner sideof the filler member substantially flush with the inner side of theplate, and a plurality of projections on the filler memberextendingforwardly into the centers of the apergtures of the face-plateto form each aperlture into a centrally cored passage, whereby Pwoted akmfe K, Which may be oscillated,l

the dough is 4forced int-o the countersinks, circulates thereabout, andis forced through the passages to issue therefrom in tubular Intestimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification.

VITO GIORGIO SANGIORGIO.

